'I've gone places others haven't'
Olga Wojtas talks to the Scots academic recently freed from an Indonesian jail. Lesley McCulloch, the Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail earlier this month, could have been free in...
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Hodge rejects plea to boost postgrad aid
The government is so obsessed with its science policy agenda that it is ignoring the issue of access at postgraduate level, the UK Council for Graduate Education has claimed. The council called for...
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Science career is endless and 'thankless grind'
Protracted apprenticeships, meagre pay and a surfeit of postdoctorates vying for scant full-time openings are degrading the quality of US academic science careers, delegates at the annual Association...
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Whistleblowers: Secret tape admissible in personal injury case
One of Britain's most senior judges has ruled that Warwick University can use a secretly recorded videotape of a former employee to defend itself against her £135,000 claim for personal injury, even...
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Whistleblowers: Cambridge accused of gender report cover-up
Cambridge student leaders have accused the university of a cover-up over its investigation into why male students are almost twice as likely to gain a first-class degree as their female peers. Their...
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Built on rules of strong reason and good fancy
Nicholas Hawksmoor
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The regeneration game
Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel composed of journals and letters: "How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made...
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Reopen the book - bacteria are back
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus
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A deadly dance with diseases on death row
Stories in the Time of Cholera - Smallpox
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With the best will in the world
One World
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Sketches on the science of style
Pevsner on Art and Architecture
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Denmark's unsung master of modernism
Arne Jacobsen
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Top-up fees: prudence or betrayal? 1
Michael Wise overstates the shortcomings of Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme (Letters, THES , January 31). Hecs did reduce the general taxpayer's contribution to higher education, but...